Princess Cristina became the first member of the Spanish royal family to stand trial in a criminal court. On Monday, the 50-year-old sister of King Felipe VI, appeared in a court in Malta accused of tax fraud; a major embarrassment for the monarchy. She appeared alongside her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin and his business partners, who are accused of money laundering and tax fraud in a six million euros sports events embezzlement. The New York Times reports: Mr. Urdangarin and Cristina sat in the back of the courtroom alongside 16 other defendants during procedural arguments on Monday. Cristina’s lawyers argued that she should be exonerated because the charges against her were filed by a private anti-corruption association, Clean Hands, instead of by prosecutors or tax officials. The court is expected to rule in a few weeks on whether the princess should be exonerated, along with other procedural issues, and then to resume the case in February. It is one of several political corruption scandals in Spain involving money embezzled from regional governments. The case against Mr. Urdangarin dates from November 2011, when the police raided the offices of his nonprofit foundation, the Nóos Institute, as part of an investigation prompted by [...]